Meeting Forthcoming!

We are going to miss Megan for sure but I had the distinct pleasure of meeting with our new organizer Carolina yesterday to discuss dates, times and how we will approach this group and found her to be a very likable person with wonderful ideas for ways to make this group work out. I think you'll agree once you meet her, if you haven't already. I walked away from our meeting with a great deal of excitement. This is a great opportunity for us all to get on with our writing.

We are currently trying to get two meetup dates [not yet in stone mind you!] a month; one in the early afternoon on first Saturdays at a library near Ben Lomond and the other to be third Tuesday evenings hopefully in the private reserve at Shadowbrook Restaurant in Capitola during March and April. Our hope is to amass as many of you as possible. You will be free to come to one or both as you are able. I'm on the lookout for places (with privacy) to meet Tuesday nights during May and June in Santa Cruz or Capitola. (I already know that Shadowbrook will not be available to us beginning May until summer is over). If you or someone you know owns a business in Santa Cruz or Capitola where you think we could fit in at least a dozen or more women, let me know. Perhaps someone has access or connections at the school board or the city council?? We just might be needing bigger spaces in case more of you are able to participate. Even a church might work out, so if you are a member somewhere… we could sure use the space.

One last thing… We have a brand new face book group which I hope you will consider liking. https://www.facebook....­ Thanks! And don't forget to post helpful links and information there!

What fine news! I discovered this group after Megan had announced that she would no longer be leading or maintaining the meetup, and was sorry that I'd missed out on participating with everyone. Thanks for your note, Paula!

We're about:

This group is all about spending time WRITING in one another's company. Whether you write on your laptop or in your journal; whether you are working on a book, article, poems, journaling, or other project; whether you are published or not or don't even care to be; you are all welcome here!

We may sit in silence for periods of time as we write; we may pause and share with one another what we are working on and read out loud to each other; we may ask for any kind of feedback we want; we may go off on tangents from there and laugh and share with each other; we may return to our writing and repeat the cycle all over again.

This group is an opportunity to have "same room" time with other women who love to write. The term "same room" was introduced to me by a dear girlfriend - it's sharing the same space with each other and being fed by that companionship, even if we spend the entire time in silence.

If you love to write, if you love hanging out with women, and if you are inspired to have more of both in your life, come join us. We do need a room of one's own (thank you Virginia Woolf) and we also need rooms to share with each other.

I look forward to sharing "same room" time with you all!

PS - The picture for this group came from Anna Mora and this is what she says about Wild Women, "Wild women (or La Loba = wolf women) – a term taken from Clarisa Pinkola Estees’ book titled ‘Women Who Run With Wolves’ refers not to women who are hysterical and ‘out of control’, but to women who are in touch with their real feminine self, with their intuitive lives and inner truth, with their own creative side, women who embrace and celebrate the ‘death-life-death’ cycle, ‘grassroots’ women... and so on...